White-winged Scoters are surprisingly large. Here is a photo I came across
while looking at images in response to Beverly's post with a hand in the
photo for scale:
(Source:
http://wildlifecenter.org/critter-corner/archive-patient/white-winged-scoter-14-0063
)
Amy Summerfelt
Newport
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Alan Contreras <acontrer56@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Also, WW scoters are enormous. I once carried one briefly.
Alan Contreras
Eugene, Oregon
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On Mar 17, 2016, at 8:26 AM, Beverly Hallberg <mapsout@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
first saw the bird, I said to my husband - oh look, a White-winged Scoter!
HA!! Thanks for the MANY responses to my dead goose query. When I
So obvious. And then my nerdy brain couldn't quite understand what the
bill was looking like and the head seemed to round and gentle - so I
changed it to a must-be-a-goose which was of course ridiculous because of
the short neck and the feet.
they're dead. AND weirdly, I think I've tried to block out all the
If I have any excuses, it is that it is dead and birds look strange when
horrible childhood hours I was forced to pluck dead ducks in a freezing
backyard shed - and have thoroughly tried to forget what dead ducks look
like.
joke Scott - who called it a Steller's Eider - ONLY JOKING!!
So I've changed the title on the picture and it wasn't meant to be a
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